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Joan Baez sings the Dave Loggins song 'Please Come To Boston'. This song was on her 1977 A&M album 'The Best of Joan C. Baez'. This is a live version of the song recorded on her 1975 U.S. concert tour and first released on her 1976 A&M album 'From Every Stage'. The song lyrics are listed below with some notes on the album and song. Note: All of the video images are of Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, and the Colorado mountains, the places referred to in the song. [CD/25-Images/WAV] Please Come To Boston (Singer-Joan Baez) Please come to Boston in the springtime I'm staying here with some friends and they've got lots of room You can sell your paintings out on the sidewalk At a café where I hope that I'll be working soon Please come to Boston I said no, won't you come home to me I said, a-ramblin' boy, why don't you settle down Boston ain't your kind of town There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee Please come to Denver with the snowfall We'll move up into the mountains so far we can't be found I'll shout "I love you" echoes into the canyon And then lie awake at night till they come back around Please come to Denver But I said no, won't you come home to me I said, a-ramblin' boy, why don't you settle down Denver ain't your kind of town There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee Now this drifter's world goes 'round and 'round I doubt if it's ever gonna stop But of all the dreams I've lost and found And all that I ain't got I still need to cling to Somebody I can sing to Please come to LA and live forever A California life alone is just too hard to build I've got a house that looks out over the ocean And some stars that fell off from the sky A-livin' up on the hill Please come to LA But I said no, won't you come home to me And I said, a-ramblin' boy, why don't you settle down LA ain't your kind of town There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee Songwriter: Dave Loggins [Lyrics from azlyrics.com] Wikipedia states: "Please Come to Boston" is a song that was recorded and written by American singer-songwriter Dave Loggins. It was released in May 1974 as the first single from his album Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop) and was produced by Jerry Crutchfield. It spent two weeks at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974; it spent one week atop the Billboard Easy Listening chart. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Male Pop Vocal performance. The three verses of the song are each a plea from the narrator to a woman he hopes will join him in, respectively, Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles, with each verse concluding: "She said 'No - boy would you come home to me'"; the woman's sentiment is elaborated on in the chorus which concludes with the line: "I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee." Tennessee is the home state of Dave Loggins, who has said of "Please Come to Boston" - "The story is almost true, except there wasn't anyone waiting so I made her up. In effect, making the longing for [a companion] stronger. It was a recap to my first trip to each of those cities...[and] how I saw each one. The fact of having no one to come home to made the chorus easy to write. Some forty years later, I still vividly remember that night [of composition], and it was as if someone else was writing the song." The song has been covered numerous times, most notably by country music singer David Allan Coe and folk singer Joan Baez, who actually began her career in the Boston-Cambridge area and included the song on her 1976 live album From Every Stage: like other female singers performing "Please Come to Boston", Baez sings from the perspective of the woman refusing the invitations. Other notable artists to have covered the song include B. W. Stevenson, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, Babyface, Tori Amos, Andrew WK, Kenny Chesney, Wade Bowen, Jackopierce, Reba McEntire, Jimmy Buffett, Lee Hazlewood, Chase Bryant, Confederate Railroad and Rita Wilson. From Every Stage is a live double album recorded by Joan Baez on tour in the summer of 1975. The first half of the album was acoustic, with Baez accompanying herself on her guitar, while the second half features electric backup. Baez' recording of "Blowin' in the Wind" from this album was later included in the Forrest Gump soundtrack album. The song "Natalya" was dedicated to Russian poet and human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya.